Card game



Feb -7, 1928, I I

H. WIEKERT, JR 1,658,751

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STATE REPRESENATNE Patented Foh. 7, 1928.v

Application 'fild. September 29, 1925. Serial No, 59,357; 1

This invention relates tocard games, and thegeneral object of the invention is to provide a deck at cards by which games based upon political elections maybeplayed.

A. further object is to provide a deck ot cards which, generally speaking. is divided into a number or? suits, each suit being up propriated to a particular political party and the cards of each suit having; thereon the names of political otiiccs, both national and state, and having also thereon indicia indicating different vz'alucs. the object oi the game being to secure in the playing the success of the political party chosen by a player in oppositionto the political another player. i

Other objects will appear in the course oi the following escription.

My invention is illustrated partying drawing, wherein ure 1 is a tacc view of: tour: of the in the accomcards of one suit;

Figure 2 is'a face another suit;

Figure 3 is a face view of 'two the third suit; i

Figure l is a tabular statement of all the cards of the deck.

My game apparatus consistsoi": a deck of cards which in actual practice are 'torty in number, the deck being divided into three suits, two suits being of sixteen cards each and the other of eight cards. card suit represents the Republican party, while the other suit of sixteen cards represents the Democratic party, and the other suit of eight cards represents an Independent or third party. The sixteen cards of each of the main suits (Republican and Democratic party suits) are divided so as to provide four cards representing what may be termed the subjects of national elections. One of these four cards will have on it the view of four cards of cards of name President, as, for instance, the card 10 party chosen by One sixteenl PATENT on nrvrnnn, rntrrvorsl preferably printed upon the card,- as, for instance, the value 20. i i i The remaining twelve cards of the sixteen "of" the suit willfhavethereon the name's orf State ofliceslor which elections are tor be had, as. for instance, Governor, see cards 12 and 'l2 in Figures 1 "and tlpLieutcnant- Governor, State Senator, Representative,

Secretary, see card 13in Figure 1, Treasurer, card 143 in Figure 2, r Supm'intendent, Trustees, see card l5 inFigureQ, County Judge, County Treasurer States Attorney, see card '16 in Figure lrandCounty Glerk. In this set of cards the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, State Senator and-Repre sentative will eachycount-15 PO 111128; The cards having; thereon thewwords Secretar v Treasurer, Superintendent andTrustecs each count 10 points. (while the remainderotithe cards, those which relate to county ofiices, as,

for instance, County Judge, Gounty'llreas urer. States Attorney 7 and wCounty filer]: count 5 points each As betoreremarked, each major-suit representin one otthc major political parties has in it sixteen ca rds zdividedas loefore described, with printed'or.othern'latteron the card indicating the political partyi'towhich the suit belongs and the particular oliice to which the card relates;

The remaining eight cards of the deck are for a third party, as, for instance, the Independent party, and preferably this suit is divided into four cards covering the national oflices as President (see card 10 in Figure 3), Vice-President, Senator and Congressman, and four State cards representing Governor (see card 12 in Figure 3), Lieutenant-Governor, State Senator and State Representative and are so indicated. The first four cards, like the first four of each major suit, have a counting value of 20 points each, while those cards which repre sent State offices, as. for instance, the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, State Senator and State Representative have a value of 15 points each.

I do not wish to be limited to marking the cards with simply the words President, Vice President, Governor, etc, or with thewords Democrat, Republican or Independent as the case may be. as pictures, emblems or other indicia may be used to indicate the political parties to which the suits correspond and the ofiices for which elections are to be had.

Neither do I wish to be limited to the point values given for these cards.

Two games which maybe-played by means of these cards I have entitled respectively Candidates and Politicians, In the first game, the game may be played by four persons. Each person receives ten cards, the two persons seated opposite each otherare partnerspand the party to the left of the dealer has first choice to choose his party and bids a certain number of votes for the right to play his party choice first. The next person in rotation then has the right to bid and the person offering the largest voting total gets the right to play his party choice first. Players may choose either the Democrat or Republicanparty(assuming that these are the party designations of the two major suits), and if the first player chooses Democrat ashis party and secures this by bidding high, the opposing partners must build up the Republicangroups.

Each groupisbuilt up separately. The national group has 20 votes each, the first Stategroup 15 votes, the second State group 10, and the county group 5 votes each. Thereare four cards in each group. The supporters of either party play the Independent roup only W ion the player cannot support is own arty, but if the player 7 cannot support eit er his own party or the Independent party he must build up the opposite party group. If he cannot play his own party group, the Independent party group nor the opposite party group, he must pass and the next player continues. Only three. groups arepermitted at one time. The first card group that is built up elects, that is,

if the national grou of 20 votes each representing the Repulilican party offices is assembled first they are elected and the players supporting the Republican party get a count of 80 points. If the Independent party group is elected first, neither the Republican nor Democratic players receive any count cards or points as far as that group is concerned. \Vhenever a party group is elected the four cards are removed and a new group started by the supporters. If the first Democrat State group of four is elected previous to the first Republican State group. of four at 15 points each, the supporters of the Democratic party receive 60 points, etc, until all groups have been assembled. The first to-play all hiscards gets 20 points.

Of course. I do not wish to be limited to any particular design for the backs of the cards, as it is obvious that this may be varied in many Ways.

I claim A deck of cards consisting of forty cards divided into two major suits of sixteen cards each and a minor suit of eight cards, the two major suits being designated respectively for two major political parties and each of the major suits beingdivided into four national office cards, twelve State oflice cards, and each of these cards having thereon a point-designating number, the Independent party cards being divided into national and State oilice cards and each card having thereon a point number.

In testlmony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

HEYE WIEKERT, JR. 

